Francis Bacon, “Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres” (1983), oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; Collection Berardo, Lisbon; © The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights ...

TIME art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the magnificent exhibit celebrating the artist’s upcoming centenary Bacon was born in Ireland to English parents in 1909, but by the late 1920s he was living ...

The film lit the blue touch paper by looking at Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which, when exhibited in London in 1945, did little to enhance any sense of euphoria at ...

75 x 57 cm. (29.5 x 22.4 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...